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NASA News Briefs and Releases BBSNews 2005 Compiled by Kandy Ringer |
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NASA via BBSNews - 2005-11-04 -- Main landing gear wheel and tire assembly and installation are complete. Pyrotechnic connection completed this week, and the drag chute installed. Water spray boilers No. 1 and 3 were serviced and are both undergoing a 24-hour decay check.
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Discovery is towed into the Orbiter Processing Facility Bay 3.
Image Credit: NASA/KSC |
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For the image shown above in a larger size, see Discovery Bay 3.
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- Mission: STS-121: 18th International Space Station Flight; second test
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- Payload: Multi-Purpose Logistics Module
- Location: Orbiter Processing Facility Bay 3
- Launch Date: No earlier than May 2006
- Launch Pad: 39B
- Crew: Lindsey, Kelly, Sellers, Fossum, Nowak, Wilson and Reiter
Atlantis (OV-104)
- Mission: STS-115: 19th International Space Station Flight
- Payload: P3/P4 Solar Arrays
- Location: Orbiter Processing Facility Bay 1
- Launch Date: TBD
- Launch Pad: 39B
- Crew: Jett, Ferguson, Tanner, Burbank, MacLean, Stefanyshyn-Piper
S-band antenna installation complete. Thermal protection system gap filler inspections and rework continue in the forward and mid-body areas. All zones are identified and mapping is complete in three of the 10 zones. Mapping will be complete in all zones by Thanksgiving and pull tests will begin. This work is being performed due to two gap fillers protruding from the underside of Discovery on the first return to flight mission, STS-114.
Endeavour (OV-105)
In Orbiter Processing Facility bay 2, the orbiter continues processing following a nearly two-year major modification period. In the payload bay, drive shaft installation on manipulator positioning mechanisms is under way. The mechanisms are the pedestals that hold the remote manipulator system, or shuttle arm, in the payload bay.
Work continues to reinstall both the body flap and the rudder speed brake. The speed brake was removed to ensure the gears in the actuators were installed in the proper configuration prior to flight.
For previous space shuttle processing status reports on the Web, visit: NASA Shuttle.
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